Vincent Farino Outside reading

I really enjoyed learning about the "otherness" this year and how it exemplifies God. Eliade describes this otherness as "Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane…. In each case we are confronted by the same mysterious act-the manifestation of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural ‘profane’ world" (p. 11). When I studied this quote i focused on the word "profane" and found that it is defined as "not relating to that which is sacred or Biblical." The otherness is described as 'wholly different from the profane' which means that it does relate to that which is sacred and Biblical.